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On April 8, 2016, Deep Purple was finally inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame

. To commemorate the occasion, longtime Vigier artist and bass legend Roger Glover has donated one of his beloved Excess basses to the Hall’s museum.Roger has been an integral part of the Vigier family since 1986. His iconic playing and wise insights into the world of rock are some of the things that we at Vigier hold most dear. Words cannot express how excited we are for Roger and the rest of Deep Purple.While it may be Richie Blackmore’s intro riff to “Smoke on the Water” that gets the most attention among aspiring rockers, it’s Roger’s throbbing bass that makes that and so many other DP tunes the headbanging classics that they are.
Congratulations, Roger!Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden records with Blackstar on The Book of Souls AlbumBack in 2008 when Blackstar was still in its infancy Blackstar sent Adrian Smith​ a HT-5 mini stack. Adrian then went on to use this and a Series One 100 head to record some of the guitars tracks on the album The Final Frontier. When it came to recording Iron Maiden​ follow up album The Book of Souls in 2014, upon request, Blackstar sent Adrian a Series One 1046L6 and a 104EL34 to the Guillaume Tell Studio in Paris, France. As well as using both of these amps to record some of the guitar tracks on the new album, Adrian wanted to get the sound he got in his home studios. When asked by Kevin Shirley the producer what he used Adrian replied, ‘The Blackstar HT-5’. So on a weekend trip home to UK Adrian brought back his trusty HT-5.Adrian used the powerfully fitting tone of the HT-5 to help record the rest of the album.